I must say, I am finally sitting down with a nice martini and running the "Hike Of The Day" through my mind, or should I say the hike I really don't want to do again tomorrow. Our destination today was Finestrat, a wonderful hill village about 5 miles above us at the mid point in the mountains that protects Benidorm from a lot of the mountain rains. We immediately started up hill from our condo and it didn't quit until we arrived in Finestrat and even in the village it seemed to be up hill from every path you took walking the "streets" (non-vehicle of course). About half way up we came upon "The Bull" that seems to guard all the hill villages of Spain. Finally we see Finestrat through the "Round-about" sitting even higher and further than we thought we would find. Finestrat is exactly what you would expect a hill village should be...absolutely wonderful. We were really surprised to find all the fruit trees in full bloom and even on our "trail" we had a few blooming flowers. We have also found it amazing to see all of these rock terraced planting areas that date back to the early 15/1600's.